Новини за тегом «Donbas»

Official Washington welcomed the postponement of illegal elections in Donbas and the start of withdrawal of heavy weapons, Deputy Speaker of the US State Department Mark Toner said, according to Ukrinform.

About 150 training camps for militants and saboteurs are operating in separatist-controlled areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, Ukraine’s Security Service Advisor Yuriy Tandit told a Ukrainian TV channel, the BBC Ukrainian Service reports.

One Ukrainian soldier was wounded after hitting a trip wire during the military operation in Donbas; no one was killed, Andriy Lysenko, an official with the Ukrainian presidential administration, said.

Ukraine is ready to withdraw weapons with a caliber of less than 100mm from the contact line as soon as the OSCE Special Security Mission (SMM) confirms a 48-hour ceasefire in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone, spokesman of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Vladyslav Selezniov told Interfax-Ukraine.

The blockade of the international humanitarian assistance in Donbas is a cynical crime of the Russian terrorists, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said during a meeting with the representatives of the international humanitarian organizations to discuss practical ways to protect the people in the occupied territories, the government website reported.

The first stage of the withdrawal of weapons of a caliber less than 100 mm in Donbas begins with the Luhansk region, Andriy Lysenko, spokesman of the Ukrainian presidential administration on issues relating to the military operation in Donbas, said.

The situation in the eastern Ukraine conflict area remains relatively calm, but the combined Russian and separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions five times overnight, Ukrainian army operation press centre reported on Facebook Tuesday.

No Ukrainian soldiers were killed, but four were wounded in the ATO area for past 24 hours, spokesman for the Presidential Administration on the anti-terrorist operation, Colonel Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing in Kyiv, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.